The End of the Middleman

The Internet has reduced the need for retailers and various rising costs have rendered their cut unviable, and increasingly, their businesses too, as Fandom Pulse chronicles the shutdown of Boardlandia: It’s been a strange space in board gaming for the past several years as companies have turned to direct crowdfunding more and more, abandoning brick-and-mortar […]

https://voxday.net/2025/04/25/the-end-of-the-middleman/

Did you know you can estimate the remaining daylight using your hands and the sun?

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the extraordinary power of media. This is what we're up against.

The TV can make lemmings radically change their opinions in two weeks just by what's on the daily news hour.

"She remembered these nights vividly: rooms filled with rich, powerful executives and barely-legal models performing sex acts as some grotesque initiation rite. One night stood out in particular: “A lot of these models were deficating on the table where T.R. was taking photos of them underneath the glass table.”

"Yes, you read that correctly. New York’s most beautiful women were taking turns shitting on glass tabletops. The men behind these scenes were so warped by power and perversion, they managed to turn a defecation kink into a normalized party activity.

"This wasn’t just about fetish. This was blackmail. They were creating leverage, disgusting, humiliating leverage, capturing the most embarrassing moments on film."
https://substack.com/home/post/p-161209378#:~:text=She%20remembered%20these,moments%20on%20film.

⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦 The moment of the explosion that killed General Moskalik in Balashikha.

The explosive device was presumably detonated remotely.

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How to memorize the Greek alphabet, widely used in math and physics, with a song.

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One may think rodents run on the wheel because in captivity, but several studies demonstrated that even wild rodents use running wheels placed in nature, even when no extrinsic reward is provided.

These are wild mice.

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"This 'treasure' rewrote California history. It was an elaborate hoax." - Katie Dowd, SFGATE, 01MAR2021

>For centuries, historians had searched for Drake’s plate, the only evidence of Francisco El Draco's expedition to the California coast. The "English" privateer, fresh off raiding Spanish ships and towns along the Pacific coast, found safe harbor in the Point Reyes area in June 1579. He claimed the territory for Queen Elizabeth I. He named it New Albion.

>According to crew member accounts, El Draco left an inscribed brass plate in the area to stake his claim. But in the 350 years since, no one had seen it.

>“If the Drake plate is bogus, the hoax was perpetrated by someone who had not only studied the history of his voyages minutely but who also had knowledge of ship fittings of the 16th century,” Bolton told the Oakland Tribune.

>In 1933, five Clampers employed an Alameda ship worker to make the brass plate, and hand-carved the innoscription.

https://archive.ph/OIEIM
(Fake History)

"Is Having a Loving Family an Unfair Advantage?" - Joe Gelonesi, ABC, 1MAY2015

>Plato famously wanted to abolish the family and put children into care of the state. Some still think the traditional family has a lot to answer for, but some plausible arguments remain in favour of it. Joe Gelonesi meets a philosopher with a rescue plan very much in tune with the times.

>So, what to do?

>According to Swift, from a purely instrumental position the answer is straightforward.

>‘One way philosophers might think about solving the social justice problem would be by simply abolishing the family. If the family is this source of unfairness in society then it looks plausible to think that if we abolished the family there would be a more level playing field.’

>It’s not the first time a philosopher has thought about such a drastic solution. Two thousand four hundred years ago another sage reasoned that the care of children should be undertaken by the state.

https://archive.ph/PiRxL

TIL that any baptized male is eligible to be Pope. In 236 AD, a spectator had a dove land on his head and he was immediately declared Pope (Pope Fabian) [Source]

The Dark Herald Recommends: The King of Kings

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